I don’t normally blog about Flexiant related stuff here, but this is a fun open-source skunkworks project, so I’m making an exception.
We’ve released krane.io, an apache licensed tool that allows you to use the Docker command line you are familiar with across multiple clouds.
The announcement is below, but you’ll get a better idea from the website or by reading the source code. The website has a really useful tutorial that explains things better than I can here.
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 04:25:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Javi Perez-Griffo <javi@...>
To: docker-user@googlegroups.com
Message-Id: <1f2a3081-c245-40ed-aac3-e9f2a992d0ff@googlegroups.com>For the last months I have been working on a side project within my company for the management of Docker instances across multiple clouds. Today I would like to annouce the first alpha version of Krane (www.krane.io).
Krane is built on the Docker code base, so supports the existing Docker command-line in a multi-cloud environment. This allows Docker users to use their existing workflows to launch apps transparently in multiple clouds, saving time and further reducing the friction of moving workloads between development, QA and production.
Eventually we’d like to get upstream Krane into the Docker code base. The patch itself is relatively small (a few hundred lines of code). It’s written 100% in Go, and is released under the Apache 2.0 licence.
In Krane, a ship is a virtual machine (VM) running a Docker instance into which Krane will place Docker containers. Krane (running on the developer’s command line) communicates with Docker running on the ship via its API (you can run Krane on the ship if you like, but it’s not necessary). Using Krane, you can execute your Docker command (such as starting or stopping a Docker container) on any ship. Ships are built as standard with a cadvisor container, which monitors performance of the ship and its containers.
A Krane shipyard is a driver for Krane that is capable of building, destroying and controlling ships. We’ve initially provided two drivers. Firstly, a driver for AWS. Secondly, a driver for Flexiant Concerto, a multi-cloud manager that supports AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Joyent and of course Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator (we’re giving away free accounts). We would appreciate and encourage contributions of further shipyard drivers.
Krane can currently do all commands displayed in the tutorial. We have intention of adding more commands to the list over time.
We are aware that there has recently been an announcement around multicloud management in Docker – see:
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8681
https://github.com/bfirsh/docker/tree/host-managementWe’re keen to work with the Docker community to integrate the two ideas or give back our code to them.
You can learn more about Krane here: http://www.krane.io/
The code is on Github here: https://github.com/krane-io/kraneHave fun! Javi
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